Police arrest 19-year-old for allegedly insulting Terengganu Sultan
KUALA TERENGGANU: Police have arrested a 19-year-old labourer for allegedly insulting Terengganu Ruler Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin through a Facebook post.
Terengganu police chief Datuk Rosli Abdul Rahman said the youth was arrested at about 4.50pm on Wednesday in Kampung Padang Jambu, Dungun.
Police also seized the suspect's mobile phone, SIM card and memory card.
"During the interrogation, the suspect admitted to making the statement in the comment section of a Facebook post and the investigation also yielded positive results," he said in a press conference here on Thursday.
Rosli said the comment in question was first detected on Monday and the police took quick action to cooperate with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to track down the real owner of the Facebook account.
He said the police was also looking for another man in his 20s from Dungun who was a Facebook friend of the suspect who is believed to have allegedly committed a similar offence.
Rosli said the police was also investigating the motive behind the alleged insult against the Sultan of Terengganu.
The youth would be remanded for four days and the case was being investigated under Section 233 (2)(a) of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 and Section 4 of the Sedition Act 1948 and Section 500 of the Penal Code, he said. - Bernama.
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